Irish singer Sinéad O'Connor has died this Wednesday at the age of 56, the family reported in a statement, without specifying the cause of death. “It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved Sinéad. Her family and her friends are devastated and have requested privacy at this difficult time," she said.
O'Connor marked an era in music when in 1990 she went from being unknown to leading the charts with her version of Prince's song Nothing Compares 2 U, with a stunning video clip featuring a fixed close-up with a shaved head. – something unusual then even in men – with which he also got her several nominations for the Grammy Awards.
From there, a brilliant career took off that added her music to the open demands, which challenged the vision of femininity and challenged society with her opinions on religion, sex, feminism or war. His images breaking into pieces in 1992 a photo of Pope John Paul II live on Saturday Night Live to denounce cases of pedophilia in the Church went around the world and increased the controversy around him while turning it into a star, but numerous industry doors were closed to him as well. In fact, she was ordained a priest by a dissident Catholic group, and she always had a strong vision of religion, which changed until in 2018, when the interpreter converted to Islam and adopted the name Shuhada Sadaqat. She was always a heterodox.
The light of success also revealed an explosive and addictive personality, partly due to the abuse she received as a child. She herself recounted it in her memoirs, Remembrances (Books of the Kultrum), published two years ago: “I grew up with many traumas and abuses. Then I went straight into the music industry and never really learned how to lead a normal life." Ballasted by a bipolar syndrome diagnosed a couple of decades ago and by the use and abuse of drugs, the singer entered a rehabilitation center in 2020 that made her cancel a planned tour after the publication of the album she was working on, Veteran. dies alone, which has not come to light, and who had announced that it would be the last since he did not feel too old to go on stage.
The news of his death comes 18 months after his 17-year-old son died, after being missing for a week after escaping from the rehabilitation center where he was. The singer confirmed on January 8, 2022 that her son Shane had died by suicide and she remarked that no one should follow "her example of hers." "My precious son, Nevi'im Nesta Shane O'Connor, the light of my life, has chosen to end his earthly struggle and is with God," he tweeted. However, a few days later she was admitted after tweeting: "I have decided to follow my son." She had already attempted suicide on at least two occasions.
